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Alaska History Footnotes: The Atlin Meteor

And while we are talking about Atlin: from the December 14, 1915 Fairbanks Daily Times, the predecessor to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:

The Unsuspected Dangers of Dog Mushing

Despite fairly strenuous efforts, WC is unable to confirm, corroborate or even find independent reference to this report. A crater 50 feet in diameter? Really? That would have been an extremely loud explosion, but there don’t seem to be other reports.